I read the item Plans For 386 Flats (January 6) and could not believe what I was reading. This project, if it ever became a reality, would sound the death knell for Qui-Si-Sana, which already borders on the overdeveloped. Close to 400 flats at a very conservative 1.5 cars, on average, per family, translates into about 600 cars more or less and these would have to enter or leave through Qui-Si-Sana.

Add the hundreds of cars from the Midi project, plus a stream of service vehicles and buses and the result is a nightmare in the making. Qui-Si-Sana would be transformed into a traffic corridor for the two Tigné projects.

Architect Alex Torpiano was quoted as stating that the project was "in line with the law". But legal does not necessarily mean right, morally right that is. He dismisses as simplistic the notion that this one development will make any difference to the traffic situation in Sliema. What he may have overlooked is that this "one project" equates to over 30 apartment blocks of an average 12 flats per block. Incidentally, is there, one wonders, any connection between this development and the infamous project of a car park in the Qui-Si- Sana gardens? Is the latter dead or quietly hibernating.

A public consultation there has to be and Environment Minister George Pullicino must use all his powers to see to this before it goes much further.